"I really hope every member of the Shadow Cabinet thinks twice before writing for the Sun after that front page," tweeted John Prescott.

The root of the objection, as far as I can tell, is that it was disrespectful of the Sun to publish a picture of Steenkamp in a bikini. "Try to imagine a man dying and the media running four billion pictures of them in swimwear," tweeted Helen Lewis, a columnist for the New Statesman. In fact, as Guido Fawkes pointed out, we don't need to try and "imagine" this because the Daily Mail published a picture of Alexander Dale Oen, a Norwegian Olympic swimmer, in his swimwear when he died last year. What Helen Lewis seems to be overlooking is that Reeva Steenkamp was, among other things, a swimwear model. Not really that sexist after all, then.

Other tweeters have accused the Sun of glorifying domestic violence. That word was actually used by Chris Bryant, the Labour MP for the Rhondda (and no stranger himself to appearing in the press in his underwear). "This is a simply despicable front page," he tweeted. "It glories in domestic violence. @rupertmurdoch apologise."

Later, he went even further and claimed that women will die as a result of the Sun's front page. "In the UK two women get killed every week in domestic violence incidents," he tweeted. "This style of journalism helps it continue."

But hang on, Chris. Aren't you being just a teensy weensy bit tabloid yourself here? We don't know that Reeva Steenkamp was a victim of domestic violence. Aren't you prejudging the outcome of Oscar Pistorius's trial? Innocent until proven guilty and all that.

Perhaps the most over-the-top comment so far has been that of Suzanne Moore, who accused the Sun of … wait for it … necrophilia. "The Suns front page has hit a new low," she tweeted. "Lechery over a corpse. A woman just murdered? I hope mass boycott."

Hmmm. Somehow, I doubt the Sun's front page will result in a "mass boycott" of the paper. Indeed, I don't suppose it will lose a single customer. This is absolutely par-for-the-course tabloid journalism. It is Murdoch's rabid critics who are engaging in lurid, sensationalist, headline-grabbing tomfoolery, not the Sun.